BY P. CAMERON. 647 



of the niesopleurae ; the rest longitudinally striated. Meta- 

 pleurae rugosely reticulated. 



Eurytominse. 



EURYTOMA BRACHYSCELIDIS, Sp.n. 



Black, covered with whitish pubescence ; trochanters, apex 

 of femora, tibiae and tarsi pale testaceous, oral region and 

 almost the upper half of the proplevirae rufo-testaceous ; base 

 of antennal scape testaceous, underside of flagellum fuscous ; 

 the latter densely covered with a microscopic white pile ; 

 wings hyaline, nervures dark fuscous. The male has the face, 

 clypevis, the lower outer orbits, and the malar space testa- 

 ceous. (J9. Length, l-5-2-5mm. 



Stawell, Victoria ; bred from coccid (Apio?norpha) galls on 

 Uiicoli/jitus sp.(C. Daly). 



Antennae in 9 short, thick, second joint twice longer than 

 wide, becoming gradually widened towards the apex, scape 

 distinctly narrower than it, the other joints wider than it is 

 long, the last conical, the narrowed part of the joints in cf 

 testaceous ; the hairs are stiff, and longer than the joints. 

 Marginal nervure as long as the postmarginal, and thicker 

 than it ; stigmal shorter than the latter, the lower thickened 

 part semicircular, emitting a branch from the apical basal 

 part. Parapsidal furrows shallow, but distinct. Abdomen 

 smooth and sinning, the apical segments fringed with white 

 hair. 



This is probably a variable species. The face in the 9 

 may be broadly testaceous, the femora may be black, or black- 

 testaceous below. The fourth abdominal segment occupies the 

 greater part of the abdomen. The testaceous mark on the 

 pronotum varies in size ; it is not visible from above. The 

 tarsi may be infuscated to a greater or less extent in the 

 middle. There is no distinct club on the antennre in 9 - ^^^ 

 the joints being of equal width to the base of the last. The 

 abdomen is distinctly shorter th;in the thorax; it is almost sessile, 

 the petiole being very short. 



